Working against a stale mirror has cost us three different ways:
- mailu #6 was linked as the fix for two internet-facing Roundcube CVEs while
upstream had already merged AND released it (3.1.3+2024.06.57). The work was
done; only our mirror was behind. Reconciling closed the PR automatically.
- a stale mirror makes a survey report 'no upgrades available', so the recipe
silently drops out of the weekly run.
- reading the wrong branch: several coopcloud recipes keep a stale 'main' beside
the real default 'master'. gitea's main is 1.24.2-rootless while master has
1.27.1-rootless and the merged PRs, so reading main manufactures a false
'three releases behind, missing two CVSS-9.8 RCEs' finding.
The reconcile logic already existed inside open-recipe-pr.sh --reconcile-only and
already resolves the default branch itself. What was missing was a single obvious
entry point and a rule saying to run it. reconcile-upstream.sh takes recipes or
--all, and is idempotent — recipe work lives in branches, never on mirror main, so
force-syncing main discards nothing.
/ci-test-review and /cc-ci-tests-update had NO reconcile step at all; both now
require it. /cve-check, /recipe-upgrade and /upgrade-all already reconciled and now
point at the shared script.
/recipe-upgrade --with-tests, /ci-test-review and /cc-ci-tests-update all author
test changes, and all three had only 'never weaken a test' as guidance. That did
not stop the plausible failure: the fixture INSERTed rows into the app's database,
which was correct for v2 and silently wrong for v3, where a site must belong to a
team. Events were acked 202 and discarded; the recipe sat RED for six weeks.
The rule that would have prevented it — set state up through the app's own
interface, not its database — now lives in tests/STYLE.md in the cc-ci repo, and
each of the three paths is told to read it before editing a test.
- cc-ci-server-update / cc-ci-tests-update / cc-ci-update: operator policy change —
open PRs for visibility/historical record and merge directly once verified
(invocation = authorization); reports must list merged-PR links + change summaries.
(tests-update still never merges the paired recipe upgrade PRs.)
- cc-ci-server-update: mandatory nixos-rebuild test step (5d) before switch, with
detached-activation + transient-unit notes from the 2026-08-03 26.05 deploy.
- AGENTS.md: test-before-switch policy for orchestrator host rebuilds.
- NEW skill cc-ci-orchestrator-update (+ thin .claude wrapper): the /cc-ci-server-update
analogue for this host (flake /srv/cc-ci-orch, .#cc-ci-orchestrator-hetzner, Hetzner
server 134487234), with self-update caveats.
- JOURNAL.md: 2026-08-03 server-update incident/recovery handoff entry.
Reverse the skill location: the full definitions now live in
.opencode/skills/<name>/SKILL.md (opencode's native project-skill
location, auto-scanned), and .claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md are thin
pointer wrappers that keep the frontmatter for discoverability and
redirect to the .opencode/ canonical file for the procedure.
Also drops the 'operator-authorized mid-run' gating from
/cc-ci-server-update: the operator's choice to invoke the skill IS the
authorization for the live nixos-rebuild switch — no second check to
wait for. The quiescent-moment preference stays (don't disrupt an
in-flight !testme), but it's not a gate.
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